Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan– real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse– which was written when she was a teenager...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 June 1935
CountryFrance
expression people faces
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
husband good-love thinking
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
opposites impossible illness
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
mad imagination becoming
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
happiness achievement great-achievement
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
wisdom curiosity
curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
people too-much
no one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...
people forgiving unhappiness
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
gambling ferrari whisky
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
song laughter wine
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
art believe opposites
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
intuition impression ifs
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
matter taste asparagus
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
mind age type
What you call types of mind are only mental ages.